Road-scraper.



E. R. KEER.

ROAD SCRAPER. v APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1911. ',L042AE'50.- Patented 0@.29,1912.

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E. R. KEER. ROAD SCRAPER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1911.

1,042,450, Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

Civici? ELISHA R. KEER, F ERIN, TENNESSEE.

ROAD-SCRAIPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, PatentedctB 29,1912.

Appncation mea Jniy ze, 1911. serial' No. 641,292.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it' known that I, ELISHA. R. KERR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erin, in the county of Houston and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Road-idcraper; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to malte and use the same.

rllhis invention relates to a new and useful road scraping and smoothing device adapted to be drawn over a wagon road, by attaching the same to an ordinary vehicle or to a vehicleiespecially designed for the purpose.

From constant use wagon roads are supplied withruts and the like, and the primary object of the invention is to provide means for filling the ruts and the like, and

generally smoothing the road.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings z-Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing the application, of the improved road scraper, as applied to a portion of a vehicle.. Fig. Qris a plan view of the device. Fig. a view in perspective of the device detached, and the means for raising and lowering the same not shown. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view showing the manner of connecting one portion of the device to the end of the spindle of the axle of the vehicle.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates t-he frame of the vehicle, having a front axle 2 and a rear axle 3. Journaled on the axles are the front and rear wheels i and 5. The rear wheels are provided with unusually wide tire rims 6,

y the purpose of which will hereinafter apear.

p The scraper 7 comprises a frame 8 having the forwardly extending side lbars 9, which arch abbut the front wheels, as shown in the drawings. Connecting between the side bars 9 and the frame 8 are the brace beams 10.

. At the lower portion of the frame 8 the scraper shoes 11 are provided, which are arranged angularly .with relation to one another, as shown, so that as the vehicle is drawn over the road, the dirt on each side of the galley or rut 12 in the road will be scraped 'nto the rut. After the dirt is filled into theirnt, the same is flattened, smoothed the invention, such as willor otherwise acted upon by the extra wide rim tire 6 of the wheels In this manner the road may be kept smooth. The outer side bars 9 terminate into eyes 13, which are offset slightly from the bodies of the bars, so as to extend into the hub of the wheels 4. To hold the rings in place nuts 1-1 are threaded to the spindles 15 of the t'ront. axle. The nuts 1l are provided with annular flanges 16, which prevent. displacement of the eyes. rl`he other bars S) are connected to the front. axle by means of the eye bolts 17. A brace bar 18 connects between the axle and two of the bars 9. by means of the eye bolts 19 and the bolts Q0, in order to pre- 70 vent side movement of the scraper device, 1 relative to the wheels.

Pivoted at 21 to the frame 8 of the scraper is a rod 22 having a shoulder 23. Fulcrumed at 24 is a bell crank lever 25, the 75 arm 26 of which terminates into an eye 27, which receives the upper end portion of the rod 2Q. The fulcruln of the lever is carried by a beam Z8 of the frame of the vehicle. Connected to, and between the eye 27 and the collar 23, and surrounding 'the rod QQ is a coiled spring 29of sufficient strength, to4 permit the scraper to be 'raised or lowered, as the vehicle moves forwardly, and yet having suliicient resiliency for holding the scraper yieldably in contact with the road bed.v To raise or lower the Scrapers the arm 30 is moved in one direction or the other.' To hold the Scrapers in raised or lowered positions, the. arms 30 are provided 90 dogs 31, which are spring tension, as shown at 32, designed to engage lthe notches 33 of the rack quadrant 34. The dogs 32 are manipulated by the hand grips 35 between n which and the dogs connecting rods 36- are 9b arranged.

As the vehicle is drawnl forward over a road-bed, the Scrapers are ,lowered in the rear of the front wheels, and held yieldably in contact with the road bed, by means of l the spring 29, and by the arrangement of the shoes 11, the dirt is scra ed into. the ruta, after which the extra ide rims of the wheels 5 smooth and pound the dirt in the ruts. After the ruts are properly filled the Scrapers are raised by the manipulation of the levers 25 in the direction ofthe arrow a..

'In order to turn the nuts 14 home, they are provided with recesses 38, for the reception of short metallic members 39, to

wheels journaled which a wrench orthe like (not shown) may be applied, thus providing means for turning the nuts on the spindles of the axles. The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is In combination, a frame having an axle, on the spindles thereof, scraper frames suspended pivotally from the axle and the spindles, each scraper frame comprising rearwardly and downwardly partially converging bars having 'a transversely disposed bar integrally connecting them, the rearwardly and downwardly parvtially converging barsA having triangular erfshoes, one secured each member, these angularly with relaaiid correspondingl like mechanisms on each side of the first' frame for individually and independently raising. and lowering each of the scraper frames.

nLIsri'i-rl R. KERK'. Witnesses:

J. W. PRICE,

F. T. ARNOLD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained 'forfive cents' each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, l Washington, D. C.

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